I spend a lot of time and money buying and reading comics. Most of the time I'm happy with my choices, sometimes not. I'm hoping,that with my reviews on what I've read, I might spare someone else dissapointment. I'll read anything, but I can't afford everything. If there's something you'd like for me to read, let me know. If you take the time to read this, please, take the time to let me know what you think. I may not agree with you, or you may not agree with me. But, so what. That's life.
Friday, January 02, 2009
Ok! I'm frustrated!
On your dashboard, under blogger buzz, there's a link you can go to to add a widget to your blog called I-Like. It's supposed to be a music widget. So you can add a soundtrack. Hey! What have I been talking about for the last couple of months? This sounds perfect to me. So I go in and start making my play-list. Actually, I was hoping that I could add music from my own computer, but . . . no such luck. You have to pick from the artists and songs that they have in their lists. But that's ok. There's an awful lot of stuff listed and I found something that I like under pretty much every artist that I looked up. Anyways, I put about 12 songs in my play-list. I didn't want to get to ambitious, and . . I wanted to go to the blog to make sure that it worked. Well . . I use a couple different browsers. Sometimes I use FireFox, and sometimes I use Safari. But mostly I just use internet explorer. But that one frustrates me sometimes so I'll just use the other ones out of spite. I guess. Anyways, I couldn't get the music application to play on either FireFox or Safari. FireFox told me I needed some plug-in, and Safari said I didn't have some mime setup. Well, I didn't want to go through all of that so I just went back to my good ol' internet explorer and viewed my blog that way. The good news? It worked. I was able to listen to the tracks. The bad news? Some of them were only 30 seconds or less. Which means if it was a live song . . . you barely got into the music before it cut off. But . . . I was ok with that. A few of the songs were full length so I just thought I'd go back and edit the list and take out the ones that didn't work. Yes it wasn't really my play-list . . I was only listing what would actually play, but . . hey . . at least it's something. It's still music. Right? Well when I went back to I-Like it didn't take me back to my play-list. It wanted to start me out all over again. So I thought, well I better go to my layout and see if I can delete the songs that way. That was a no-go! All you can do from the layout is delete the whole widget. But I thought . . that's ok. I'll just delete it and start over. 2 problems here. First it doesn't want to delete right. It gives you an error message. So it doesn't look like it's deleted even though it says it has been. Secondly, I went to posts and then back to layout and it showed it was gone. However, I rearranged a couple of things to give the play-list a more prominent placement, but now . . . now I can't move anything back. When I go to layout, everything seems to be locked it place. This sucks! All I thought was that I could share a couple of my favorite songs with the people that browse me, but no! It has to be a big ordeal and now I have to go to blogger and ask for help on how to fix my layout. What a pain in the posterior. So, my advice to you, if you look into the blogger buzz regularly, and you see this article . . . turn away! Turn away fast and don't be tempted by thought of creating your own soundtrack. It's not worth it, and now . . . now I've wasted about 45 minutes messing around with it. Just say NO!
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I'm kind of glad this didn't work out. I usually read your reviews from my desk, while I stream radio through headphones. I'm sure the mishmash of sound would be distracting.
ReplyDeleteOverall, I think it's a neat idea. And I know it's still in Beta. But, I wish they would make sure the bugs are worked out before they start asking people to try it. It was a frustrating experience.
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